I tried to view my old iPhoto library, but it replaced my Photos library

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I tried to view my old iPhoto library, but it replaced my Photos library

Lost hundreds of pictures today!

I just wanted to view my old iPhoto library. (I upgraded to Photos from iPhoto way back in April '15) When I opened my old library today, it started to kind of re-upgrade into Photos. When Photos finally opened, it gave me this tutorial tour, even though I've had it for almost a year. The problem is that all of my photos from last April till now have been deleted!!! I have no earthly clue why, or how to fix it.

Please help 😢

MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Late 2013), OS X El Capitan (10.11.3)

Posted on Feb 12, 2016 8:57 PM

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LarryHN

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Feb 12, 2016 10:14 PM in response to dominiqueadevai

Hold down the option key and then launch Photos - in the resulting select library window check library - you should have at least two and all of your photos should be there in them - the orl ones in one and the current ones in another

When you quit PHotos and launch it again it will open the last used library =- to cahnge again optiohn click again

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